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Tourism and Sex Outside the “Sex Tourism Paradigm”: Tourists' Perspectives and Practices in a Sun and Beach Destination

Tourism and Sex Outside the “Sex Tourism Paradigm”: Tourists' Perspectives and Practices in a Sun and Beach Destination

Milene Lança, Fernando Bessa Ribeiro
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 28
ISBN13: 9781799831563|ISBN10: 1799831566|EISBN13: 9781799831570
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3156-3.ch017
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Lança, Milene, and Fernando Bessa Ribeiro. "Tourism and Sex Outside the “Sex Tourism Paradigm”: Tourists' Perspectives and Practices in a Sun and Beach Destination." Handbook of Research on Resident and Tourist Perspectives on Travel Destinations, edited by Patrícia Pinto and Manuela Guerreiro, IGI Global, 2020, pp. 361-388. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3156-3.ch017

APA

Lança, M. & Ribeiro, F. B. (2020). Tourism and Sex Outside the “Sex Tourism Paradigm”: Tourists' Perspectives and Practices in a Sun and Beach Destination. In P. Pinto & M. Guerreiro (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Resident and Tourist Perspectives on Travel Destinations (pp. 361-388). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3156-3.ch017

Chicago

Lança, Milene, and Fernando Bessa Ribeiro. "Tourism and Sex Outside the “Sex Tourism Paradigm”: Tourists' Perspectives and Practices in a Sun and Beach Destination." In Handbook of Research on Resident and Tourist Perspectives on Travel Destinations, edited by Patrícia Pinto and Manuela Guerreiro, 361-388. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2020. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3156-3.ch017

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Abstract

The relationship between tourism and sex has been intensively explored over the past decades. The great majority of the studies examining this relationship focus disproportionately on commercial sex tourism as if all the sexual encounters in tourism context are related to prostitution, commercialization, trafficking, inequalities, and disrespect for the human rights. Despite these contributions, the purpose of this chapter is to show that most of the romantic and sexual encounters that occur in a tourism setting are positive, gratifying, and nonpecuniary. Therefore, these relationships should be analyzed outside “sex tourism paradigm.” Results from 29 in-depth interviews with tourists in the Algarve (South Portugal) confirm the strong relationship between holidays and romantic and sexual behaviors, due to the liminal nature of tourism. In addition, results show different perspectives and behaviors according to gender, due to the continuous sexual double standard.

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